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RNC Legal Counsel: Delegates are unbound, Ron Paul poised to win the nomination

In what may be the most stunning revelation of the ongoing GOP presidential nomination... more

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Ralph Nader endorses Rocky Anderson for President

On April 17th on CBS News, while being interviewed by Brian Montpoli, Ralph Nader made... more

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A Note to the Political Illiterate

German poet and theatrical director Bertolt Brecht offered a warning many years ago.... more

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An Open Letter to Ron Paul from Rocky Anderson

Dear Congressman Paul, You have fought an amazing battle for what you believe... more

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Ron Paul Keeps Winning as Supporters Prepare For a Battle With GOP Old Guard

Four years ago, Nevada State GOP insiders so disliked Ron Paul supporters that they... more

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Corrupt Judge David P. Kreider now taints the 2012 election process from his base in "Gator Country"

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Bernanke to Congress: We're Much Closer to Total Destruction Than You Think

From February but found it to be significant:

Official Congressional budget estimates understate the peril of rising debt, Fed chair Ben Bernanke told the Budget Committee on Capitol Hill today.

Warning that our nation's fiscal health has deteriorated appreciably since the onset of the financial crisis and the recession, Bernanke called upon lawmakers to confront the long term fiscal challenges sooner rather than later. If lawmakers don't confront them, they'll find themselves confronted by them.

From Bernanke's prepared remarks:

"By definition, the unsustainable trajectories of deficits and debt that the CBO outlines cannot actually happen, because creditors would never be willing to lend to a government with debt, relative to national income, that is rising without limit. One way or the other, fiscal adjustments sufficient to stabilize the federal budget must occur at some point. The question is whether these adjustments will take place through a careful and deliberative process that weighs priorities and gives people adequate time to adjust to changes in government programs or tax policies, or whether the needed fiscal adjustments will come as a rapid and painful response to a looming or actual fiscal crisis."

Bernanke explained that the Congressional Budget Office's calculations miss an important reality. As the government's debt and deficits rise, the economy will slow down—an effect not taken into account by the CBO. So, for instance, when the CBO says that federal spending for health-care programs will roughly double as a percentage of GDP in the next 25 years, it is probably being too optimistic. If debt keeps, rising, GDP will be much lower than the CBO estimates—which will mean that health care spending will be a much larger percentage of the overall economy.

Here's Bernanke on the effect of rising debt:

"Sustained high rates of government borrowing would both drain funds away from private investment and increase our debt to foreigners, with adverse long-run effects on U.S. output, incomes, and standards of living. Moreover, diminishing investor confidence that deficits will be brought under control would ultimately lead to sharply rising interest rates on government debt and, potentially, to broader financial turmoil. In a vicious circle, high and rising interest rates would cause debt-service payments on the federal debt to grow even faster, resulting in further increases in the debt-to-GDP ratio and making fiscal adjustment all the more difficult."

In short, the official estimates members of Congress hear from their budget office are under-estimating our dire economic predicament. If fiscal policy is not brought under control, things will be much, much worse.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41491193/Bernanke_to_Congress_We_re_Much_Closer_to_Total_Destruction_Than_You_ThinkFrom February but found it to be significant: Official Congressional budget... more

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Is Romney impotent? Ann Romney discusses Mitt's erectile dysfunction | Scholars and Rogues

She didn't REALLY say this, did she? Jeez, somebody alert George Takei.

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Three quick thoughts on Mitt and a five-alarm dumpster fire named Trump | Scholars and Rogues

Today was a disaster for Mitt. Is Trump possibly a deep cover mole working for Obama?

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Rocky Anderson to be interviewed by the Barefoot Accountant next Tuesday, May 29th

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Why it's time for a single income tax

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Exclusive -- Event Schedule For Dick Cheney's July Fundraiser For Mitt Romney

Cheney's obviously seen the Hunger Games

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What's So Strange About Mormonism?

Today, I came across the above image on facebook and thought at first, HOW SILLY that people who believe in this Mormon faith would actually wear magic underwear to protect them from danger. Then I thought, IT'S NO CRAZIER THAN SOME OF THE OTHER suppositions that religions teach their flocks to assert as true; thus, today's blog.

The magic underwear (or undergarment) is just another fairytale belief from a supernatural and superstitious world that religions EVERYWHERE project. Mormonism, in my ‘book’ is not any stranger than the other belief systems that rely on some enchanted faith. They all tell their followers to TRUST ME AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED IN AN AFTERLIFE. Now who in the HELL can disprove that??? The sycophants of MOST religions are led to believe that they will win the lottery once their earthly existence has expired. Why and how can they possibly believe in such a ridiculous delusion?

Because it was written down on parchment or paper by some other delusional (but educated enough to know how to write) human being and these antiquated essays were gathered together through the years, put in a binder and labeled SCRIPTURE.

Well, for me, I’d rather view a sunset and feel gloriously part of the greatest mystery mankind can experience; the unfathomable, unknowable truth of existence.

So please, don't subject to ridicule another person's belief system when you, yourself believe in the same ridiculous notions of the supernatural in your own orthodoxy. thinkingblue

PS: I once knew a very religious (Catholic) person who would make endless fun of those who believed in UFO's and aliens from another planet... WTF?

Excerpt below from this article: http://davewhittle.net/2012/04/05/truth/what-mormons-really-believe-get-ready-for-the-anti-mormon-bigotry-parade

EXCERPT: “Do Mormons REALLY believe all that?”

The answer is usually no – but I’ll admit: we Mormons believe some rather strange things. For example, we believe God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to a 14-year old boy in upstate New York in 1820. We believe that same boy, with the utterly unremarkable name of Joseph Smith, received engraved plates of gold from an angel and, through revelation, translated those plates, published the translation that is now The Book of Mormon, and established a church with hundreds of adherents – all before he reached the age of 25. We believe in modern prophets and in personal revelation. The practice of our religion makes us objects of ridicule as well. No coffee, tea, tobacco or alcohol? No pre-marital or extramarital sex? Mormons in good standing pay a full tithe? Once polygamy was OK but now it’s not? A previous policy preventing the blacks from receiving the Priesthood that was rescinded by revelation as recently as 1978? Proxy baptisms for our deceased ancestors and other secret (we say sacred) ceremonies inside temples? Ceremonial undergarments as a remembrance of our temple covenants? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.Today, I came across the above image on facebook and thought at first, HOW SILLY that... more